How to Grow Women's Pro-Cycling

[Flying_Monkey]

Nicole Cooke's autobigraphy is out and it looks like it is going to be on the reading lists of anyone who has contributed in this thread (and should be required reading for everyone in the male-dominated upper echelons of cycling). If she had been a man, Cooke would have been celebrated and supported, and would have had teams built around her. As a woman, her fiercely independent, single-minded attitude marked her out as 'difficult' and hard to manage and, like Becky Addlington and many other strong female athletes, she was even attacked for her looks - as if it even matters to an athlete's performance.

Let's hope that people will pay attention to her undoubtedly serious and workable ideas about that her legacy will mean that fewer girls and women in the future have to put up with the kind of chauvinistic treatment that she did.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

But what a performance to finish on.

Emma won that race for Armistead. Immense effort.

 

[smutchin]

Brilliant team performance, rounded off perfectly by Armitstead and Pooley. So pleased for the pair of them. Pooley was superb in the last 30km and totally earned that silver.

 

[Strathlubnaig]

Emma won that race for Armistead. Immense effort.

With a wee bit help from the moto

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Fair enough, but I stand by ''immense effort!''

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Just a little bump to draw attention to the live screening of the women's road world cup at Plouay today on the UCI channel on youtube.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z45MPP-a9Rk

 

[G3CWI]

How about a handicap system where a women's race starts part-way along a men's race, giving a catch and a mixed finish.

 

[andrew_s]

I see that Emma Pooley's new sporting career is off to a good start
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/get-inspired/28800884

 

[HF2300]

 

[smutchin]

I like this -
http://prowomenscycling.com/2014/09/22/equivalenting-2014

...except for comparing Emma Pooley to Tommy bleeding Voeckler!

 

[fimm]

Boyfriend said: there's going to be a new women's cycling team. Called Giant-Assos. I said: that sounds like something from April 1st. Boyfriend: No, really, but as someone else said, "someone didn't think that through very well"....
No link, sorry, just what b/f said...

 

[MisterStan]

Rowsell speaking out against the selection policy and lack of entrant in the wome's TT.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/29340672

 

[rich p]

Boyfriend said: there's going to be a new women's cycling team. Called Giant-Assos. I said: that sounds like something from April 1st. Boyfriend: No, really, but as someone else said, "someone didn't think that through very well"....
No link, sorry, just what b/f said...

I don't know if it's different from the Giant men's team but their new sponsor is Alpecin hair products
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/alpecin-announced-as-new-sponsor-for-giant-shimano
Well, Marcel Kittel is head and shoulders above the other sprinters

 

[fimm]

I don't know if it's different from the Giant men's team but their new sponsor is Alpecin hair products
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/alpecin-announced-as-new-sponsor-for-giant-shimano
Well, Marcel Kittel is head and shoulders above the other sprinters

LOL at Marel Kittel joke.
It is entirely possible that my boyfriend's contact on the internet was talking a load of rubbish (people do this on the internet. Who knew?)

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Amaury looking for sponsors for a women's Tour de France:
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/20...-heir-wants-u-s-sponsor-for-women-s-race.html